New job!

One of the things about being a journalist — you get used to keeping things under your hat until embargo dates are lifted, or keeping your mouth shut altogether when someone gives you info “off the record” — and I’ve usually found it easy to keep things close to the vest when it’s part of the job.

This time around, though, the news is mine, and I’ve been wanting to talk about it for a while. As of Friday, I joined Novell as the openSUSE community manager.  Keeping that under wraps was much more difficult than not spilling the beans about other people’s news.

I’m really excited to be joining the openSUSE team. I’ve been using and advocating Linux for almost 12 years now, and I’ve had a great time covering Linux and open source as a tech journalist. Writing about a community that I care about has been really rewarding — but, I’ve long wanted to be a direct contributor rather than just reporting on what other folks are doing. Now, I’m going to have the opportunity, and I can’t wait to get started.

You can see my first post on my new blog (openSUSE Spotlight) over on opensuse.org. I’ll be blogging a lot over there about all things related to openSUSE, so please be sure to keep an eye on that page as well. I’ll still be posting here, about things not-so-related to openSUSE. Like the fact that the GIANTS WON last night.

As I said in my other post, I really want to thank AJ, Justin,  Michael, and Martin and other openSUSE and Novell folks for their support so far, and my friends and family for their support too.

Now, there’s a lot of work to be done, so I’m going to start getting to it.